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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosEgyptOmanNorth Macedonia
27366,0012,3482,006
27467,3772,4032,017
27568,7902,4572,026
27670,2692,5102,011
27871,7852,5622,018
27973,2982,6132,024
28074,8322,6632,028
28176,4322,7132,031
28278,1402,7642,035
28379,9452,8162,038
28581,8402,8712,042
28683,8442,9282,046
28785,9692,9862,049
28888,1983,0472,052
28990,5663,1102,055
29093,0093,1742,058
29195,4323,2402,061
29197,8823,3072,063
292100,3033,3752,065
293102,6173,4442,067
294104,8163,5122,068
294106,8933,5822,065
295108,8713,6512,057
295110,5933,6962,048

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Egypt

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Barbados, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.